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YoungDemCA

(5,714 posts)
Sun Jan 3, 2016, 02:30 PM Jan 2016

Sometimes, you really can't make this shit up...

Grover Norquist Verified account
‏@GroverNorquist

An armed people are a free people.
If our forefathers were not armed before the American Revolution we would all be speaking English today.


https://twitter.com/grovernorquist/status/683425783470239744
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Sometimes, you really can't make this shit up... (Original Post) YoungDemCA Jan 2016 OP
Snort KentuckyWoman Jan 2016 #1
Well, as George Bernard Shaw (might have) said... ljm2002 Jan 2016 #2
My god...I checked his account.... dixiegrrrrl Jan 2016 #3
What can one possibly say in the face... 3catwoman3 Jan 2016 #4
And drinking English tea, instead of good American coffee! Babel_17 Jan 2016 #5
Ummm . . . we are speaking English, Grover. Vinca Jan 2016 #6
and better healthcare! sonofspy777 Jan 2016 #7

KentuckyWoman

(7,411 posts)
1. Snort
Sun Jan 3, 2016, 02:34 PM
Jan 2016


Though to be fair as one of my kin states, We speak American. English sounds too gay. So Norquist is getting a double dog whistle in on that one.

ljm2002

(10,751 posts)
2. Well, as George Bernard Shaw (might have) said...
Sun Jan 3, 2016, 02:54 PM
Jan 2016

..."The United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language."

3catwoman3

(29,726 posts)
4. What can one possibly say in the face...
Sun Jan 3, 2016, 04:30 PM
Jan 2016

...of such ignorance.

Years ago, the wife of a minister, who was, herself, not traditionally religious, told us about a member of her now-ex-husband's congregation who did not approve of foreign languages being taught in American schools. This doofus' rationale was, "If English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me."

Babel_17

(5,400 posts)
5. And drinking English tea, instead of good American coffee!
Sun Jan 3, 2016, 04:35 PM
Jan 2016

Huh, that's actually his account, and not a satire.

Vinca

(54,279 posts)
6. Ummm . . . we are speaking English, Grover.
Sun Jan 3, 2016, 04:37 PM
Jan 2016

The only thing that has changed is some of us wish we lived in England where there are far fewer guns.

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